Regulation Rag.

• Autores: Steve Mirsky
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 290, Nº. 3, 2004, págs. 110-110
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article discusses how bureaucracy and organizations such as the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, despite the stiff regulations and red tape, are helpful. I was strongly in favor of reduced regulatory intrusion into private activity. Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good! If we were painting a cave wall and scratched a finger that then got infected, we didn't complain to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration. Ordinarily I might have a treat for which I first developed a taste when I was too young to appreciate stop signs: a burger. But on this early January day I have just learned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has finally decided to ban the sale of "downer" cattle, animals too sick to walk, in the wake of the country's first case of mad cow disease.